Flood the zoning
By Maryann Xue As Charlottesville continues to search for new ways to address its housing shortage, City Council voted unanimously Monday to approve rezoning for a vacant lot on Nassau […]
Cops (not) out
After protests over police brutality rocked the nation in the summer of 2020, both Charlottesville and Albemarle ended their school resource officer programs. The districts replaced the officers with care […]
They want a do-over
The 2022 General Assembly session is in full swing. In November’s election, Republicans flipped the House of Delegates, taking a 52-48 lead after two years in which Democrats controlled all […]
What is love?
It’s that time of year—Cupid is sharpening his arrowheads and wrapping himself in his very best tunic. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, we asked C-VILLE’s freelance writers to tell us about […]
In brief: School funding bill killed, IX for sale-or not
School (funding’s) out A Virginia House of Delegates subcommittee killed school funding bills Friday that would’ve allowed localities to raise money for school construction, voting 5-3 on all three bills. […]
Out of control
For nearly two years, the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail has been hit hard by the pandemic. While the virus shakes up life outside the jail’s walls, those incarcerated at ACRJ have […]
Limited choices
Between about 1944 and 1953, Mable Wall Jones was a major figure in the lives of Emily Abel and Margaret Nelson. In addition to cooking and cleaning for their family, […]
Future fuel
Eye of the Tiger When attorney David Sutton purchased a small Charlottesville oil supplier on the verge of going out of business in 1982, the company had just two trucks […]
In brief: Signer’s anti-snow day, Majors killers sentenced
Signer’s snow day dust up Last week, after Charlottesville City Schools called off school on Tuesday due to lingering hazards from the weekend’s snowstorm, former mayor Mike Signer took to […]
‘They’re my people’
“You’re in Bills Country,” announced a blue-red-and-white banner hanging near the entrance to Champion Grill. Geographically, I was nowhere near Bills Country. I was here in Charlottesville, more than 400 […]